The Manchester Alphabet, an A-Z of Manchester's rich musical, cultural and historical achievements. now available as a framed poster, just £29.
Read MoreKnutsford Market and poster
Did our first Knutsford Market last Sunday, and it was a huge success, selling lots of posters, greetings cards and fridge magnets. However, people said that the only thing missing from our collection was a Knutsford poster. No problem, I've just done one, which will be available in framed A4 format at Sandbach Market this Saturday. Also available in A1, A2 and A3 online through statementartworks.com
Read MoreManchester, the northern powerhouse. Flex those muscles!
George Osborne says it and the government says it, so it must be true - Manchester is the northern powerhouse, or is going to be...one day. Watch this space, but in the meantime, we should all enjoy the thrill of having super strength promised to us. One day. Here is my new poster to celebrate the fact.
Read More
Liverpool gets the Eric Jackson Statement Artworks treatment
By rights, Mancunians are supposed to hate Liverpool. Not Eric Jackson, whose two years at the Liverpool Echo were among the best and happiest of his career. He still has many friends there and is a frequent visitor to the city's bars and restaurants.
So it was only natural that he should make Liverpool the subject of his latest poster, which, while poking fun at the fashion for young women to wear curlers while out on the lash, it salutes the fun-loving nature of the scousers.
To buy the poster, visit statementartworks.com
Read MoreWilmslow for creative accounting!
Anyone for...well. it could be a whole lot more.
Read MoreFrom the Bury Times
BLACK puddings, Bury Market and even Gary Neville feature in the latest work of a Manchester artist who is recreating the travel posters of the past but with a modern twist.
Eric Jackson, a former journalist who took up novel writing and painting after an operation meant he couldn’t walk for four months, has painted a Bury-inspired poster along with other districts in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and ones of Manchester United and City. Full story - http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/13588399.Artist_features_black_puddings__ Bury_Market_and_Gary_Neville_in_his_latest_work/?ref=mr&lp=6
From the Macclesfield Express
AN ARTIST has described Macclesfield as the home of ‘beer, sex chips and gravy’ in a tongue in cheek poster campaign for the North West.
Eric Jackson has created posters of different towns and cities in the region inspired by traditional seaside advertisements for tourists.
But the humorous posters have a twist as they poke fun at the places they depict, with the Macclesfield poster claiming ‘Stay in Peak Condition! With beer and sex and chips and gravy’.
The poster also shows the mill, canal and a woman wearing walking boots and drinking a pint.
Another poster for ‘Cheshire’ shows a power couple, sports car and the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank with the slogan ‘The search for intelligent life goes on in ...’.
Eric, 58, said: “They are meant to be a bit cheeky without being offensive, to highlight the idiosyncrasies and quirkiness of a place.
“For example, the headline on the Chorlton poster, which shows a yoga woman with a teapot on her head, is: ‘Be different – just like everyone else in Chorlton.’ The people of Chorlton will get that joke and hopefully laugh at it.”
The 12 posters are reminiscent of classic posters used to advertise towns such as Morecambe and Blackpool.
Eric, a dad-of-two from Stockport, added: “I love that bold, stylised look of the old posters from the forties and fifties.
Full story: http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/macclesfield-land-beer-sex-chips-9801099